United Kingdom – Sept 20
Interview with Sir John Houghton (IPCC 1988-2002) on climate policy
UK green policies: how the Lib Dems compare
Labour starts renewable energy drive to win back climate initiative
Staff
Energy and nation – Sept 20
Interview: Top Iraq oilman Thamir Ghadhban
The vision of Venezuela’s National Oil Company
Energy CEOs call for Canadian national policy
Coal industry asks Washington for handouts
The fuel merchants of Zimbabwe (smuggling)
Housing & urban design – Sept 20
Post Carbon Cities- planning for energy and climate uncertainty
New York City turning to biodiesel for heat
Green roofs sprouting new adherents
California regulators propose developing energy self-sufficiency by 2020
Zoning the ‘enemy’ of affordable homes
Radical new approach to affordable housing
Parking drives up housing costs
Living on the edge: OPEC spare capacity
These high prices are exactly what you would expect if the world is closing in on the peak of world oil production. Consumers would be well-advised to change their behavior before events do it for them.
Peak oil – Sept 19
World Energy Council predicts oil peak in 10-20 years
Transcript of James Schlesinger interview
ASPO conference – 2nd morning, 1st afternoon
Economic impact of peak oil (1): a flashback
New Queensland Sustainability Minister on the future with less oil
Solving Fermi’s Paradox
In the context of current debates about how to maintain the onward march of technological progress, it may be worth revisiting a logical paradox half a century old that casts doubt on whether unlimited technological progress is possible at all.
Peak oil – Sept 18
Irish energy minister says oil rationing “common sense”
Oil to reach $100 a barrel ‘next year’
ASPO conference – first morning
Australian journalist on politics & PO
Elite learn about energy realities
Movie review: Energy Crossroads
Renewables – Sept 17
California’s renewable energy future
Utility will use batteries to store wind power
Cape Wind commentary: spitting into the wind
Jeremy Leggett: Solar technology and alternatives ready to replace fossil fuels
Bubble energy? (limits of renewables)
State-level initiative to expand clean energy
“The 11th Hour” and Generation Z
Leonardo DiCaprio’s documentary The 11th Hour is a valuable film and everyone who can get to a theater should go and see it. A more personal treatment of the same ground can be found in What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire.
Forgive us our carbon emissions – Sept 17
The ‘Guilty Green’ (gasp!) don’t always recycle
Want not, waste not is the next green step
Vatican penance
Nobel prizewinner Yunus calls for lifestyle ‘traffic rule’ to fight warming
Geopolitics – Sept 17
Petroleos de Venezuela to convert accounts away from dollars
Greenspan clarifies Iraq war, oil link
Iraq oil reality vs the NY Times
Wesley Clark: The next war
Shortfalls in Russian oil deliveries to Germany
Food & agriculture – Sept 17
Can’t we all just … be vegans?
Return of GM in UK: climate concerns may reduce backlash
Fuel shortages may hurt corn harvesting
Make or break time for Australian harvest
